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Pitt Is Building a Molecular Brain Map to Understand Alzheimer’s Disease
Less than a decade ago, when Hansruedi Mathys launched an ambitious project to create an annotated library of all the gene readouts stored within 100 individual brain cells, the task felt daunting.
Now, with technological advances, Mathys successfully mapped out such “transcriptomes” from not just 100, but from 1.3 million brain cortex cells from 48 individuals with and...
Pitt’s Team Behind Team USA
Hadjipanayis Elected AANS/CNS Tumor Section Chair
Costas G. Hadjipanayis, L. Dade Lunsford Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, and director of the UPMC Center for Image-Guided Neurosurgery, has been elected chair of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Section on Tumors by the section's executive committee. The Section on Tumors—the largest...
Electronic Prompt for Surgeons May Reduce Breast Cancer Overtreatment
University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel prompt, or “nudge,” embedded in the electronic health record that could reduce overtreatment of older patients with early-stage breast cancer.
In a paper published July 17 in JAMA Surgery, the team found that the rate of a surgical procedure called sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB)...
Next Steps on Environmental Justice Efforts
Tina Ndoh (left) and Dani Wilson (right)
Energized by the lessons of a three-day environmental justice summit the University of Pittsburgh cosponsored this spring, participants are putting what they learned into practice around Pittsburgh.
The event’s leaders were Tina Ndoh, associate professor of environmental and occupational health, School of Public Health, and Dani...
Self-Management Program Helps Patients With HIV and Chronic Pain
An intensive, 12-week pain self-management program has been shown to reduce pain and improve mood in a large clinical trial of people with both HIV and chronic pain, according to a paper published July 15 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The research, led by Jessica Merlin, professor of medicine and director of the CHallenges in Managing and Preventing Pain (CHAMPP) Clinical...
Hormone Therapy for Breast Cancer Linked with Lower Dementia Risk
Hormone modulating therapy (HMT) used for the treatment of breast cancer was associated with a 7% lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias later in life, according to a new study published today in JAMA Network Open.
The study, which is one of the largest of its kind, found that although HMT was linked with protection against the development of...
Kristin Ray’s New Children’s Book Teaches Coping Skills
by Isabel Doshi
“I love how storytelling and sharing stories can help children to develop their identity and their emotional intelligence and to support social-emotional learning,” Kristin Ray said.
Ray, associate professor of pediatrics, School of Medicine, wrote a children’s book, “Sam’s Sadness Slips Out,” published on July 12. The book aims to help children...
Okonkwo Sworn in to UVA Board of Visitors
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin swore in David Okonkwo, professor of neurological surgery and director of the Neurotrauma Clinical Trials Center at the University of Pittsburgh, as one of five new appointees to the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, his alma mater, on July 10.
The board is responsible for the school’s long-term planning, budgets and policies,...
